The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-14
TuE wouAW Y0TR.

The woman suffrage law failed TO
take the control Of LeavenWorth CITY
affairs out Of the hands of the Nelly
crowd, and d. R. Anthony and his re-
form movement were defeated. The
trouble over there is that d. b. is SO
notorious for his cranky methods and
so careless Of the truth in his opposi-
ton to anything he dislikes, that the
people do not care to follow after his
lead, even when he has SO good looking
a blonde lieutenant as Mrs. Cougar.
But, even If the woman ticket has been
defeated in Leavenworth-as it has IN
almost every city in the state where
they attempted to run things all one
way-yet the temperance cause has not
been defeated, as the republican party,
and not the woman voters, Is the guar
dian Of that cause.
Even in our own city, although the
women failed to elect the so-called
temperance candidate, we venture to
say that the prohibition law and every
other law on the statute books, will be
fully as well enforced, as if the candi-
date selected by portion of the wo-
men had been elected. In truth, there
was no cause for division. Had
there been a temperance issue THE
NEWS would have sided with the La
dies, and done its utmost in such a
cause.
The women, if they intend to take
part in politics hereafter, win find that
when they make an issue it will be nee
essary to find cause for making such
issue, as the voters-male and female
as rule, will not cast their votes in
direct opposition to their own best in
terests, not even to please four or five
or a dozen would-be leaders.
The ladies who headed the move
ment of Tuesday last will also have to
learn that every good husband in this
city has Just about as much influence
over his wife as said wife has over him,
and that the probabilities are that
when said husbands business interests
conflict with those of an electioneering
committee, sent out as against him and
his interests, he may possibly argue
the matter with his wife in such man
ner that she will plainly see that it
would not be in the line of her duty to
assist in causing dissensiOns that might
possibly result in financial loss to the
city, or interfere with the progress of
her husbands business, and thus be-
come drawback to his prosperity. in
ofoad Of n haIppnant
In these booming business times
every effort is being made to get to the
front. And in an effort to do this a
mutual agreement was entered into by
the leading business men of Emporia to
unite on one man on whom all inter
ests could agree, and thus do away with
the eternal pulling and hauling one
against another that has heretofore
characterized every movement made
toward pushing the interests of our city
forward. But because, fOrsooth, few
would-be leaders supposed they could
carry the entire woman vote in theil
pocket, and to crafty the morbid am.
bition of few others, all the interest:
of the entire community were to bC
jeopardised.
There is little reason to doubt thai
the lesson of Tuesday will be a salu
tary one. Should there arise any issue
wherein the temperance cause were
threatened, or should any other ques
ton of a moral character, become {
cause of contention, there is little
doubt as to which side our mothers
sisters and wives would take. But
just so long as the issue raised is ont
which exits merely in the immagina
ton of brainless men and women Wit
aspire to be political bosses, just 81
long will the woman vote be as mucl
divided as that of the men.
And just so long as the municipal
suffrage bill is law of the state, just
so long will it be the duty of all ladie
to register their names on the pol
books, and, when necessary, as in case
like the one on last week, go to the poll
and cast their votes against few o
their own sex who propose to rule, ever
if in doing so they may possibly ruin tn
whole town and create all kinds of bit
terness and ill-feeling between not onl
old feudal enemies, but even between
man and wife.